Shameless plug for my employer

So yeah, here's how I've been spending my time the past few weeks at work (I did everything under the heading "Blasts from the Past" on this page). It launched about an hour ago—behold its brilliance.

In all seriousness, I'd be interested to hear what y'all think about it how it looks and functions. (You know how important the perspective of teh youthz is to this business.)

News Jay Does Want to Hear

Linus Torvalds has some rather harsh words for OpenBSD devs, as well as for the security community as a whole. The words are not exactly SFW, but full of win nonetheless. Unfortunately, he's just going to have to live with the fact that security will always be a sexier computing topic than regular old bug stomping.

Election website better than 538 (IMHO) back online

Prof. Sam Wang, a biophysicist at Princeton, has revived his awesome "Meta-analysis of State Polls" that he started in 2004. If you remember how I was in the Fall of 2004, I used to check this site about 20 times a day.

In my opinion, the methodology is better than 538 since it does not include Nate's regression data, cool as it is. I think this is a major source of error for 538, as evidenced by Nate's big misses in the primaries (e.g., KY and SD). Also, Prof. Wang's model doesn't use a Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the probabilities, but actually calculates the exact numbers.

If you are an obsessive poll-watcher like me, I would highly recommend this resource.

News Jay Doesn't Want to Hear

Looks like, for Windows, there is finally light at the end of the tunnel. Or it may, in fact, be a freight train coming your way. Midori is interesting not only because it represents the first hint of a post-Windows era, but may also be the herald of the post-localized OS era, as well. Hosted virtualization is taking off in recent years, and while it has yet to see the light of day in consumer markets, rumblings of similarly web-centric OS’s—the “Google OS”—have been going on for quite a while now. The fact is that the majority of computing functions already exist in some form or another either with a web app, or some sort of virtualization software. Ironically, just as HD’s start to be measured in TB’s, we may just end up using them as caches.

Morgan Freeman Crashes Car, Lives

In yet another threat to the Batman series, Morgan Freeman was in a serious car accident this weekend. He suffered some injuries, but does not appear to be hideously disfigured, avoiding the irony of him having to switch to playing Two-Face. I read other reports of a female passenger, but this BBC article makes no mention of her health status.

The Slippy Express wishes him a speedy recovery because we like movies that he is in.
Conversely, I hope Shia LeBouf's hand gets gangrene and they have to chop it off.